So Michael Moore's latest "film" - some would prefer to call it what it is: sinister anti-American, extreme-Left propaganda - Fahrenheit 9/11 is top of the North American box office. After Moore's work received the prestigious Palme d'Or prize at the Cannes Film Festival last month, it has now stormed onto American movie theaters, having grossed $8 million on its first day of release.

Which makes me wonder, are Americans gluttons for punishment? Maybe they are viewing this rubbish in the hopes that they can catch a glimpse of just what kind of madman they are dealing with - and let's be honest, any rich white man who derides and decries other rich white men for the horrible crimes of being both rich and white, has surely got loony-bin potential.

Or perhaps the barrage of the anti-American media, which reports every bad piece of news they can pick up upon while reporting absolutely no good news from the war front, has worked its magic, slowly transforming the American psyche from one of pro-Bush outrage at terrorism to anti-Bush outrage, blaming the President for terrorism.

Moore is a bitter man, extremely bitter at his country, his government and his people, and won't rest until every person on the face of the planet hates America and Americans with an almost dangerous passion. Then he'll liquidate all his impressive assets and join Johnny Depp on the French Mediterranean, looking forward to the next explosive terrorist attack on American soil in the hopes of stringing a prominent Republican up by the cojones and fattening his bank account even further.

A newspaper editorial in the Chillicothe Gazette called Moore's film out for the sloppy and profoundly biased non-documentary that it is. Problem is, everyone else in the world, including brain-addled Americans themselves, will be all too willing to take this as gospel.

Leftist Christopher Hitchens, enraged by Moore's untruths and obviously very unhappy at the spectre of having such a malcontent resting in the shadows of his political philosophy, has it out with the (Anti-) American Fat-ass.

Some select quotes:

To describe this film as dishonest and demagogic would almost be to promote those terms to the level of respectability. To describe this film as a piece of crap would be to run the risk of a discourse that would never again rise above the excremental. To describe it as an exercise in facile crowd-pleasing would be too obvious. Fahrenheit 9/11 is a sinister exercise in moral frivolity, crudely disguised as an exercise in seriousness. It is also a spectacle of abject political cowardice masking itself as a demonstration of "dissenting" bravery.

We are introduced to Iraq, "a sovereign nation." (In fact, Iraq's "sovereignty" was heavily qualified by international sanctions, however questionable, which reflected its noncompliance with important U.N. resolutions.) In this peaceable kingdom, according to Moore's flabbergasting choice of film shots, children are flying little kites, shoppers are smiling in the sunshine, and the gentle rhythms of life are undisturbed. Then - wham! From the night sky come the terror weapons of American imperialism. Watching the clips Moore uses, and recalling them well, I can recognize various Saddam palaces and military and police centers getting the treatment. But these sites are not identified as such. In fact, I don't think Al-Jazeera would, on a bad day, have transmitted anything so utterly propagandistic.

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